TRTFID^. 2^5 



umbreous or grey-brown ; first line merely suggested by a 

 black -brown dot on the costa and a faintly cloudy spot or two 

 below ; second line dark brown, complete, curved, excessively 

 indented throughout, or formed into a series of small cres- 

 cents with long points ; subterminal line suggested by the 

 edge of a slender smoky cloud which lies along the hind 

 margin ; orbicular stigma indicated by a minute black streak 

 or dot in a fold in the middle of the discal cell ; reniform 

 stigma small, lunate, black-brown; extreme hind margin 

 streaked and dotted with the same colour ; cilia pale brown, 

 clouded with darker. Hind wings broad and elongated, 

 rounded behind, glossy white with a smoky tint ; nervures 

 dusted with light brown ; cilia shining white. Female very 

 much smaller. Fore wings narrow and rather ovate, blunt 

 behind, glossy black-brown, leaden-brown, or grey-brown ; 

 first line more complete, formed into curves, smoky-black ; 

 second line thick, evenly curved, but hardly showing the 

 indentations or the crescentic points ; orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata both small, black, the former flattened ; hind wings 

 small, smoky-grey ; body short and rather stout, but tapering 

 behind to a small tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings dark brown along the costa 

 and at the apex, shading off to white at the dorsal margin ; 

 hind wings shining white, broadly dusted over the costal 

 region with brown ; nervures tinged with pale brown. 

 Body and legs darker brown. Female wholly dark leaden- 

 brown beneath. 



This species is so little known that we are scarcely aware 

 whether it has any degree of variation, except that the 

 •female ranges from grey-brown with two strongly marked 

 transverse lines to leaden black-brown with the two lines 

 thick and still blacker. There is a very dark specimen in 

 the collection of Mr. Sydney Webb. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June. 



Larva red-brown or bark-colour, with an interrupted 



